ILM Snapshot - What do you ACTUALLY listen to?

So for me, currently:

Current Top 40 - 25%
'Eighties' Music - 20%
Hip-Hop - 15%
Indie - 15%
Dance - 15% (mostly house and garage, the obvious names therefrom)
'World' - 5%
Rock - 5%

Hope that gives you some idea. Be as honest as you can!

This doesn't account for binge listening. Last week it was 80% reggae, with the rest divvied up equally between IDM/Electronic/Noise, indie, and hip hop........ since sometime yesterday: 100% Electrofunk.

Yeah I know hence the word TYPICAL!!! ;)

In fact forget the whole week thing if you want - average out your listening over the last month, or six months, or year! And don't feel the need to use shopworn genre names just cos I did :)

Genre definition problems aside, here we go:

45% 'electronica' 35% indie 10% ambient/drone 5% pop 5% the rest

I have shockingly broad tastes, as you can see. That breakdown is currently typical and has been for many months, but isn't representative of everything I own. At all.

These days.......

80% dance (house, trance, breaks, techno, whatever works on the dance floor) 10% downtempo/ambient 10% rock

This can be directly attributed to rock exciting me less and less as the years wear on. There are fewer bands I am interested in.

30% indie (semi contemporary crud) 30% other (world, experimental, jazz, classical etc..) 10% hip-hop 10% top 40 (includes all genres) 10% electronic 10% 'classic rock' (including punk)

I'd like to think this is accurate but...

IDM/glitch - 18%
Hip Hop - 17%
House - 16%
UK Garage - 11%
Pop/R&B - 11%
Rock/Indie - 9%
Jpop/Jrock - 7%
'Other' (soundtracks, classical, jazz, soul) - 5%
Jungle - 4%
Downtempo/ambient/triphop - 2%

Uh...er...I already forgot what exactly I listened to. Things. I listened to some Grace Jones and Monkees and Daft Punk today, does that help?

Dreampop, Postrock (shudder) and other bands that postrock seems like the best name for when attempting to describe band or other types of music for which staring at shoes is an acceptable action: 40%
punk/postpunk/: 20 %
Canadian indierawk maaaaan: 20%
Dance music that one cannot dance to: 10%
Glorious happy 80s tunes (the more fromage the better): 10%

Of which about 50% is Canadian, maybe 20 from across the pond and more or less the rest south of 60.

I don't like all the genre names, but what else can you do: experimental (covers alot), space rock, slowcore, shoegazing, dream pop, neo-psychedelia, trip hop, glam/art-rock (not prog rock), protopunk, hard bop, smooth, fusion, classical, reggae, world (newest for me), new wave, new age, new rock, Japanese pop/noise/alternative, and any mixture of the above or others. my favorites being space, experimental, and glam

an average week:

35% chartpop of varying types (hiphop to nu-metal and back agin) heard via radio, tv, & cds.

15% dance (mostly 88-95, but newer stuff alla time.)

15% what we call indie now that they called other names then (post- punk/pre-alternative/dreampop/noisepop/whatever.)

15% what we call indie now that will probably be called something else in the future.

20% whatever's left (ambient, electronica, jazz, funk, etc.)

50% heavy metal 20% indie stuff 20% Asian pop music 2% Bob Dylan since early December 3% ambient stuff including Eric La Casa-type stuff & synthy stuff 5% Barbra Streisand

I admit, John, that last one has me scratching my head, if only because I hadn't heard you mentioning her before.

At the moment...

5% Jazz ('40s-'50s or current; virtually nothing in between) 10% '70s R&B 20% Brazillian jazz/MPB 25% Folky, slowcore, or melodic guitar rock/pop 30% Psychedelic '60s pop (Beach Boys, Ballroom, Zombies, etc.) 10% Everything else (20th Century "serious" music, electronica, '80s cheese, Four Freshmen-type vocal groups, guilty pleasures, etc...)

I like lots of music of course, but as for as actual current listening time I give about 45% to hiphop, 45% jazz of all stripes, 10% various rock/soul/electronica whatever (this week Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Photek, Tool).

Actually seems pretty boring broken into those two broad categories, but hiphop is so much fun and jazz is wide and deep enough to satify all of my muso needs.

50% sad indie alt.country 35% idm 5% hip hop 5% techno/dance 5% radio pop

- current Mainstream pap: 0,00000000000001% (which goes up to 5% whenever Timbaland produces something....)

- Indie Stuff: 55% (it's Ben & Jason right now...)

- Reggae/Blues/jazz: 20% (current pick: Ken Boothe: crying over you (anthology - Trojan))

- Experimental/weird/contenmporary composition: 15% (I'm getting into Ruins' Symphonica this week)

- Non-indie pop/hip-hop/classic rock/other: 9,999999999999999% (The Jam - Snap)

Depends. Difficult to break it down in percentages. But overall: No Wave/Punk, Pop and Rock mostly. Less indie schmindie than I used to. Then I add some R&B, Noise, Jazz, Hip Hop... I rarely listen to Techno, unless I am on the dancefloor. Like last night.
Lately more experimental schtuff again.

25 percent-er.....punk I guess.

30 percent-alt country

10 percent-indie

15 percent-hiphop

20 percent-Breakbeat/House/other dance.

Pretty much what I write about at any given time. Rather pointless to graph it.

Hmmm...I don't think I can do the %'s thing...but

This week I have listened to:
Poison
Neil Young
The Philistines Jr
J Mascis and the Fog
Some Velvet Sidewalk
Abba
The Carpenters
David Bowie
Velocity Girl
Modest Mouse
Foo Fighters
Smashing Pumpkins
Pearl Jam
Temple of the Dog
Europe
Evan Dando

So, I guess that's early 90's rock - underground pop/rock - Classic Pop/Rock - with some 80's hair metal thrown in

I have also watched most of the current chart pop stuff on:
CD-UK
Top of the Pops
MTV/The Box.

Mostly music which is improvised or gives the feeling of improvisation. I've bought these albums:

Anthony braxton: Dortmund (quartet)- with thrombonist george lewis.

Cecil taylor: silent tongues

Borbetomagus: Buncha hair that long

Frank Zappa: Guitar

But I also bought theese recent reissues:

Swans: sountracks for the blind (the way a band should reinvent themselves:- it's still swans but the ambient pieces in between are wonderfully worked out: can someone mail a copy of this to those radiohead folks) and the first album by the black sun Ensemble (a great blast of summery psychedelia, if you enjoy II by the meat puppets then get this today).

Early eighties electro - 40%
New wave - 15%
Current electropop - 25%
Mainstream/chart pop - 10%
Indie schmindie - 10%

Ned, don't do it. Forget I said anything. "Je M'Appelle Barbra" will kill you where you stand. Back slowly away from the Barbra Streisand. I apologize for mentioning it. I should have lied and said "5% murk-ambient" or something. Sorry.

A combination of getting DSL at home, getting low on cash, and working on music myself have resulted in me listening exclusively to mp3s recently. So, most of the clips on the Other Music e mail newsletter, a bunch of 'experimental folk music' I read about on Pitchfork (Iditarod, Drekka), mp3s of an experimental folk band I want to release on American Patchwork, The Gongs, and mp3s I'm receiving daily of another AmPatch project, Super Madrigal Brothers (SuperMario + Shakespeare + Salvador Dali!)...

I also have a playlist in iTunes called 'Influences', designed to steer me in a particular direction in what I write. This includes selected morsels by Holger Hiller, Robert Wyatt, Toog, Dragibus, Bjork, Takako Minekawa and more of The Gongs.

CD ROMs: Pop Up Computer by Gento Matsumoto and La Musique Electroacoustique by INA/GRM.

Some internet streaming radio; I recorded on my hard disk recorder the whole of 'I Send You This Cadmium Red', last week's excellent Radio 3 piece about colour by John Berger, with music by Gavin Bryars.

So 25% English art school whimsy, 25% American/Scandinavian experimental folk, 25% German electronic mysticism and 25% French musique concrete.

And here I am just grabbing what CDs look good on any particular day. Though that did include Vision Creation Newsun earlier this week.

Ned, don't do it. Forget I said anything. "Je M'Appelle Barbra" will kill you where you stand. Back slowly away from the Barbra Streisand. I apologize for mentioning it. I should have lied and said "5% murk- ambient" or something. Sorry.

Well, now you have my interest, actually. This sounds like one of those croon collections Current 93 releases of other artists to induce pagan rituals and invocations of the beyond.

Each week is as random as the week before.

or MORE random.........................

No as random. As random.

I feel as though I have already more or less answered this question a few times here already. Taking the past year:

30% Arabic (This figure would probably have been lower if I hadn't injured my knee. While I was unable to dance, I stayed away from listening to Latin music. In the mean time, going back and listening to lots of Arabic music, including cassettes I hadn't gotten out in a while kept me happily distracted.)

30% Latin, mostly salsa. (It's not that I'm always dancing when I listen to this, but I do tend to suddenly interrupt what I'm doing to jump up and dance a bit if the right song comes on.)

10% Sun Ra/Arkestra (This figure may actually be higher)

5% Other Jazz

5% Rock/R&B

6% Other World

3% Electronica (only because I inherited a box full)

11% Everything else

I think these figure are pretty inaccurate, but I'm not sure in what direction exactly. One thing which makes this complicated is that I borrow a lot of CDs from someone at work, and I also borrow a lot of CDs from the library. Often these are not in my favored styles, so I may be underestimating how much time, and so when I think of what I've spent time listening to, I don't necessarily give enough weight to borrowed items.

In additional to my "specialty" fields, I would like to buy (and listen to) more: old classic rock, Late 60's/70's pop (just about all genres), roots reggae, dub, guitar weirdos (e.g., Henry Kaiser, Fred Frith, Hans Reichel, Chas Smith), scattered progressive things (mostly without vocals: e.g., Etron Fou Leloublan, Ash Ra Temple, Sensations Fix), some modern classical (Varesse, Stockhausen, maybe Ligetti), etc. (cop out) One or two things from the 80's too. For some reason, I really want to get some Adam Ant.

30% Country/Alt Country/Bluegrass 20% Electronic/IDM/Blipping&Beeping 30% Indie 20% Pop and others

This past week has been Dan Digs Through Boxes And Plays IDM/Drum N Bass/Rave Comps That He Forgot He Had, interspersed with New Order, Frank Martin, Top 40 radio, and The Smiths. (I take back what I said about _Strangeways, Here We Come_; this album isn't poor because of a disjoint between the vocals and backing music, it's poor because the songwriting is lackidaisical and enervating. Only "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" has anything approaching the spark of older Smiths material; everything else sounds completely uninvolved and disinterested in angaging the listener beyond the level of, "ooh jangly guitar". There's no rhythmic or melodic drive, the lyrics rant rather than flow... the entire album is just flat and lifeless.)

So what you're saying is. ;-)

20% Things that sound like Can & new Boredoms
20% Things that sound like Ruins & Magma
20% Things that sound like Beatles/Beach Boys/XTC. So basically, those bands.
10% Classical, mostly modern
5% IDM
5% Miles Davis
5% Things that sound like John Zorn
25% Other things, including Abba, Stereolab, promos that don't fall into one of the above categories, and whatever is on the radio.

whatever is on the radio.
My teddy bear doesn't produce music. Would be cool though.

As random as random as random as random.

this week:
50% rock (and this is a big category)
5% sythesizer bach & monteverdi (which i'm sure is a huge genre)
30% indie
5% metal
10% classical

Let's go for: 33% hip-hop, 20% what the Wire calls "avant-rock," 13% rock that the Wire would sniff at, 17% noodly pretentious crap, 10% electronic stuff, 6% "other." The "other" category consists mainly of soundclips from The Conet Project, over and over again. God, I want those CDs.

In the morning I pick out some stuff to hear on the bus to and from work, and while I'm walking around at lunch. This will usually include something I'm reviewing, plus a CD or 2 of whatever else. Probably 60% electronic suff, 20% indie pop/rock, 20% other, which might include some jazz, hip-hop, or something more abstract.

At home, I usually listen to LPs, since I can't hear them otherwise. This is probably about 30% jazz (mostly 50s and 60s stuff), 40% old pop and rock from the 50s, 60s and 70s, 5% country, and 25% misc drone/electronic/ambient stuff.

Driving around is the only time I really listen to pop radio, and not too often then. Mostly when I'm driving with somebody else.

cars driving past on stuart st. - 100%

dleone, your list adds up to 110%. We do the math, but you go the extra mile for music.

recently I listened to: - Notwist: Neon Golden - Blur: First album (car tape) - Galaxie 500: Today (car tape) - Howe Gelb: Lull Some Piano - Wedding Present: Seamonsters (car tape) - Teenage Fan Club: Bandwagonesque (car tape) - PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love - Velvet Underground: Quine Tapes - Boards of Canada: Everything You Do Is a Balloon - Serge Gainsbourg: Covered by French bands of today

Now the percentages (I hate putting music into genre drawers): - 10% chanson - 10% piano instrumentals - 20% electronica and related - 60% indie

Sorry about the non-formatting. I try again.

Recently I listened to:
- Notwist: Neon Golden
- Blur: First album (car tape)
- Galaxie 500: Today (car tape)
- Howe Gelb: Lull Some Piano
- Wedding Present: Seamonsters (car tape)
- Teenage Fan Club: Bandwagonesque (car tape)
- PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love
- Velvet Underground: Quine Tapes
- Boards of Canada: Everything You Do Is a Balloon
- Serge Gainsbourg: Covered by French bands of today

Now the percentages (I hate putting music into genre drawers):
- 10% chanson
- 10% piano instrumentals
- 20% electronica and related
- 60% indie

It has, of late, looked a little like this:

Electronica/IDM- 35%
Indie Schmindie- 30%
Psychedelia- 8%
Posty Punky Newy Wavey- 8%
Things That Are Like Glen Campbell & Scott Walker- 6%
Hip-Hop- 6%
Modern Chart Pop- 4%
Of course, this is wildly inaccurate, as such things are wont to be, and also unfairly set out, with some genres divided up into little bits and some left to represent whole swathes of their ouvre, but I think that what comes off the top of your head when asked to do these things can be just as representative as the real nitty gritty facts. What a long sentence.

Hmm, how strange, it seems it has eaten my last one-

Avant-Garde/Experimental- 3%

Over the past couple of years:

Jazz from Parker to Miles going electric - 45%

Other jazz - 10%

Hip-hop - 10%

Other pop and rock - 20%

World - 5%

Classical - 10%

dleone, your list adds up to 110%. We do the math, but you go the extra mile for music.

Some things never go out of style, such as using a calculator to bring you this:

18.18% Things that sound like Can & new Boredoms
18.19% Things that sound like Ruins & Magma
18.18% Things that sound like Beatles/Beach Boys/XTC. So basically, those bands.
9.09% Classical, mostly modern
4.55% IDM
4.55% Miles Davis
4.54% Things that sound like John Zorn
22.72% Other things, including Abba, Stereolab, promos that don't fall into one of the above categories, and whatever is on the radio.

40% Indie Rock (from twee to old punk to alt-country to drone) 40% IDM (including dancefloor - it's all IDM to me) 20% var. styles all over the map, mostly old stuff like Harry Smith Anth., Brigitte Fontaine, 60s garage, soundtracks... Chart pop, alternative rock, adult contemporary, etc,. I only hear on other people's radios or on TV.

The Indie/IDM ratio is hard to gauge, because IDM CDs run longer and tend to take more playings to sink in. I hear a greater number of indie bands/albums but IDM occupies more of my time.

What I listen to is constrained by the media available at the time. So whereas this time last year I was living in the UK and listened to the radio a lot (and hence a fair bit of chart-pop and dance music), now I mostly rely on my own record collection, which mainly consists of indie, hip hop and vintage (i.e. pre-90s) pop - of course, this is all 'pop music' as far as I'm concerned - plus about 60 classical/contemporary records.

In the spirit of the "snapshot", here's most of what was on the stereo this past week or so: De La Soul, Kate Bush, Lauryn Hill, American Analog Set, Princess Superstar, Pharaoh Monch, K-Tel's "20 Dynamic Hits" and "22 Dynamic Hits Vol.II" (from 1971 and '72 respectively), Bubba Sparxxx, Spiritualized, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, "Clicks & Cuts 2", The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers.

Radio Consumption:

Current Top 40 - .01%

60s ---------- Classic Pop - 5%

70s ---------- Classic Rock - 5% Classic Punk - 20%

80s ---------- 80s Pop - 10% 80s Hip-Hop - 2% 80s Metal - 2% 80s College (Postmodern/'Indie') - 30% 80s Goth - 2%

90s ----------- Grunge - 10% Goth - 5% Folk - 30% Techno-Industrial - 10%

Yeah, I know it adds up to more than 100%, I do alot of channel surfing on the radio

By CD Genre

My CD Rack has 7 Layers
Layer 1: Blues, Hendrix, Clapton, Dylan - 5%
Layer 2: Protopunk, 77 Punk, Neopunk - 15%
Layer 3: US College Music, Grunge - 10%
Layer 4: Goth, UK College Music - 15%
Layer 5: Celtic (Male & Comps), Reggae - 10%
Layer 6: Celtic (Female) - 25%
Layer 7: Greatest Hits of...60s & 70s, Jazz, Funk - 20%

By MP3 Genre

Country - 2%
Hip-Hop - 1%
80s Pop - 40%
90s Alt - 40%
Comedians - 10%
Misc - 7%